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Type - Painting
A Day's Picnic on Clark Island
A Game of Draughts 1933
By tranquil waters 1894
H Desbrowe Annear c1921
Salute to Five Bells
Tamarama beach, forty years ago, a summer morning
The Bridge in Curve 1930

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Painting

A Day's Picnic on Clark Island

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Oil painting depicting a day on the island in 1870, donated to the Mitchell Library in 1930.

A Game of Draughts 1933

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Painting by Eric Wilson which is held in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and was a gift of the Liverpool Memorial School of Arts in 1963.

By tranquil waters 1894

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Oil painting by Sydney Long of boys swimming at the junction of the Cooks River and Wolli Creek. It is held in Art Gallery of New South Wales and reproduced on the Dictionary of Sydney courtesy of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia.

H Desbrowe Annear c1921

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Portrait by William Beckwith McInnes of Melbourne architect Harold Desbrowe Annear which won the first Archibald Prize in 1921.

Salute to Five Bells

Mural commissioned for the foyer behind the concert hall in the Opera House. Olsen chose Slessor's poem Five Bells as the subject.

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Tamarama beach, forty years ago, a summer morning

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Romantic depiction of Tamarama Beach painted by Julian Rossi Ashton in 1899. Owned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Bridge in Curve 1930

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Modernist painting by Grace Cossington Smith which depicts the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction in 1930. It is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.